It isn't hard to do in several of the Yellowstone drainages because they could eliminate all invasives above the high falls on the Firehole, Gibbon and some of the other rivers. I was just out in Yellowstone and didn't catch a single native, shame on the dopes that stocked all those invasives.Not a single river grayling exists anymore within the park.I seriously doubt the doom and gloom that some say will ruin the fishing in the park. The Yellowstone Cutthoart is threatened, and the grayling doesn't exist in the parks rivers, only in 3 lakes. It may take a good marketing plan, but the cutthroat evolved there and grew quite large.

Posted on: 2013/10/20 8:00

Edited by Chaz on 2013/10/20 8:19:55

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The object of a resource is to use and reuse a resource, not to use it up, have we learned nothing in over 125 years of stocking?

People in the indusrty can be clouded by their own self interest. That said, it would be nearly impossible to eliminate these evasive species now they have been introduced. It's very hard to convince people this could be a benefit to the enviroment etc...when it is preceived this limits their fishing and or catching opportunities.

I was out there this summer. The instruction to kill bows in the Lamar drainage seems like mostly a non-issue for me, because the NPS says that if it has a red throat slash, it's a cutt and you should put it back. I've caught a fair number of cutt-bow hybrids in the lower end of Soda Butte (for example) over the years, some of which looked basically just like rainbows, but never one I can recall without that slash.

Yes it is controversial, but the Park belongs to all citizens, not just a few anglers and guide who live near there. I'd suspect the guides are behind local opposition, there are behind oppoision at Big Spring too.